Remove the tv-series tag

Question

We have tv and tv-series (and series). I suppose there's a small possibility that someone might want to distinguish between a one-off TV program and a series, but I don't see any value in separating those cases in tags.

I personally don't like any of the media tags - but earlier discussion isn't really clear about their fate (and I've seen them - even series - used by mods, which makes me wary about editing them away). All the positive score answers say that most should only be used when the question is focused on the medium; one suggests leaving some (including tv).

For those that weren't around for the original discussion (or if your view has matured), please go take a look at that question too.

Assuming that tv is here to stay, is it ok to edit out all use of tv-series? Is there anyone that would prefer a synonym? If so, please vote for it - if it gets created (only needs a score of 4) then I guess that's the answer here, and I don't need to edit them away.

There's also now television, which surely is a synonym for TV. It seems like most people prefer a synonym to just editing them away (until the media tag decision is made), so I've suggested these two synonyms, but as yet there are no votes. If you want the synonym, please go vote for it.

Answer 1

television is now merged into tv.

I've made tv-series a synonym of tv, but not merged. This way, any new use of tv-series will be converted into tv, but existing uses are retained, so we can go back if it turns out to be a mistake.

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I second synonymizing tv-series to tv. I think series should be progressively eliminated manually, replaced by the appropriate media (tv, radio, comics, …) if a media tag is deemed necessary.

Answer 2

tv-series is quite clearly a meta tag and should be removed.

I also, quite strongly, feel that the collection of { tv, radio, etc,..) should also be removed as they're of little use either.

To put it another way, which is more useful as a method of categorisation for a question about the Watchmen film, tagged:

• watchmen watchmen-film
• watchmen film

If we worked on the basis that the second case was better, and then there was a question asked about, say the Doctor Who film, tagged doctor-who and film, we'd then have a tag (film) containing a question about Doctor Who and a question about Watchmen. What possible use as a method of grouping questions in the context of Science Fiction & Fantasy does this have?

Now if the two questions (Watchmen and Doctor Who) were tagged:

• watchmen watchmen-film
• doctor-who doctor-who-film

Each tag would stand on its own as a way of categorising questions in the context of Science Fiction & Fantasy, rather than the medium in which said piece of SF&F was presented.

If someone's a watchmen geek, but only cares about the film, they can look at watchmen-film. If another person is only interested in the comic, they can look at watchmen-comic. If yet another person just plain loves watchmen, they can look at watchmen for anything and everything watchmen related. The first person (the film geek) can't readily look at film without seeing questions about utterly un-related (in the context of Science Fiction & Fantasy) topics.